Becka White
@beckacita.bsky.social
researcher at Amnesty Tech's Security Lab | surveillance and gender justice | writer (London Writers Awards; A Writing Chance)
Europe's role in the global spyware crisis must no longer be ignored. Not only is the EU failing to put out the fire, they're fanning the flames.
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MEPs: EU must explain funding to spyware companies
: Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate
www.theregister.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Europe's role in the global spyware crisis must no longer be ignored. Not only is the EU failing to put out the fire, they're fanning the flames.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/e...
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💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social
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💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social
💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech
💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social
&Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech
💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social
&Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social
💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social
💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech
💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social
&Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social
New @amnesty.org investigation exposing mass surveillance & censorship expansion in Pakistan via foreign firms and public money. #BreakTheFirewall www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty In...
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September 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
New @amnesty.org investigation exposing mass surveillance & censorship expansion in Pakistan via foreign firms and public money. #BreakTheFirewall www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Becka White is a great working-class writer and human rights campaigner from south-east London.
She's written for the New Statesman and the Times Educational Supplement – her piece Why Don’t Children’s Book Characters Live in Flats?, published in the latter...
She's written for the New Statesman and the Times Educational Supplement – her piece Why Don’t Children’s Book Characters Live in Flats?, published in the latter...
July 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Becka White is a great working-class writer and human rights campaigner from south-east London.
She's written for the New Statesman and the Times Educational Supplement – her piece Why Don’t Children’s Book Characters Live in Flats?, published in the latter...
She's written for the New Statesman and the Times Educational Supplement – her piece Why Don’t Children’s Book Characters Live in Flats?, published in the latter...
🏠 There are millions of leasehold homes in England and Wales, whose 'owners' are subject to spiraling and opaque ground rents, service charges and - in my case - repairs costing tens of thousands of pounds. It's an absolute scandal. My story is just one of many👇
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I’m a Leaseholder Get Me Out of Here!
Buying a council house is supposed to give working-class people the rights and privileges of middle-class homeowners. But it doesn’t.
thebeemagazine.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🏠 There are millions of leasehold homes in England and Wales, whose 'owners' are subject to spiraling and opaque ground rents, service charges and - in my case - repairs costing tens of thousands of pounds. It's an absolute scandal. My story is just one of many👇
thebeemagazine.com/im-a-leaseho...
thebeemagazine.com/im-a-leaseho...
It shouldn't be so hard to find UK children's books that show people living in flats, or in homes with no outdoor space.
I shared some of my recommendations with @tesmagazine.bsky.social (and working-class writer extraordinaire @kitdewaal.com shared it here🤩💛!)
I shared some of my recommendations with @tesmagazine.bsky.social (and working-class writer extraordinaire @kitdewaal.com shared it here🤩💛!)
June 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It shouldn't be so hard to find UK children's books that show people living in flats, or in homes with no outdoor space.
I shared some of my recommendations with @tesmagazine.bsky.social (and working-class writer extraordinaire @kitdewaal.com shared it here🤩💛!)
I shared some of my recommendations with @tesmagazine.bsky.social (and working-class writer extraordinaire @kitdewaal.com shared it here🤩💛!)
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This has made me think of the time my small children met some children from (then) Swaziland on holidays and they asked my boys breathlessly if they’d ever been to a park, because while growing up on a thousands-of-hectares farm they’d read about going to city parks in so many books.
June 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This has made me think of the time my small children met some children from (then) Swaziland on holidays and they asked my boys breathlessly if they’d ever been to a park, because while growing up on a thousands-of-hectares farm they’d read about going to city parks in so many books.
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In the move to diversify bookshelves, schools shouldn’t forget about representing different types of homes, writes @beckacita.bsky.social, as she shares her list of recommendations for books set in flats for @tesmagazine.bsky.social
20 children’s books set in flats
In the move to diversify bookshelves, schools shouldn’t forget about representing different types of homes, writes Becka White, as she shares her list of recommendations
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June 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In the move to diversify bookshelves, schools shouldn’t forget about representing different types of homes, writes @beckacita.bsky.social, as she shares her list of recommendations for books set in flats for @tesmagazine.bsky.social
Amnesty's 2025 annual report, The State of the World's Human Rights, highlights how tech has played a key role in governments using repressive tactics to attack human rights and silence critics...🧵
May 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Amnesty's 2025 annual report, The State of the World's Human Rights, highlights how tech has played a key role in governments using repressive tactics to attack human rights and silence critics...🧵
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Ruling against NSO Group in Whatsapp case a “momentous win in fight against spyware abuse”
With comment from my colleague @beckacita.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
With comment from my colleague @beckacita.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Global: Ruling against NSO Group in Whatsapp case a “momentous win in fight against spyware abuse” Ruling against NSO Group in Whatsapp case a “momentous win in fight against spyware abuse”
Responding to a ruling that spyware maker NSO Group must pay more than USD167 million in damages to Whatsapp, Rebecca White, Amnesty International’s researcher on targeted surveillance, said: “This is...
www.amnesty.org
May 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ruling against NSO Group in Whatsapp case a “momentous win in fight against spyware abuse”
With comment from my colleague @beckacita.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
With comment from my colleague @beckacita.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware
Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware - Amnesty International Security Lab
Amnesty International has found evidence that two journalists at the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (“BIRN”), an award-winning network of investigative journalists, were targeted ...
securitylab.amnesty.org
March 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
📢 NEW: Investigative journalists in Serbia targeted with Pegasus spyware
Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
Our team at @amnesty.org's Security Lab have found new evidence that Serbian authorities continue using NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against Serbian civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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Small 🇮🇹Italian cyber intelligence firm Negg recently won a contract to provide its services to the office of PM Giorgia Meloni "after #Paragon was exposed," according to Intelligence Online sources.
"The firm is developing a 1-click spyware called VBiss."
www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance...
"The firm is developing a 1-click spyware called VBiss."
www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance...
March 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Small 🇮🇹Italian cyber intelligence firm Negg recently won a contract to provide its services to the office of PM Giorgia Meloni "after #Paragon was exposed," according to Intelligence Online sources.
"The firm is developing a 1-click spyware called VBiss."
www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance...
"The firm is developing a 1-click spyware called VBiss."
www.intelligenceonline.com/surveillance...
📢NEW: The alarming discovery that Paragon’s Graphite spyware has been used against activists and journalists in Italy underscores Europe's worsening digital surveillance crisis, fuelled by a laissez-faire approach to regulation of the industry. via @donncha.is
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Europe: Paragon attacks highlight Europe’s growing spyware crisis
The use of Paragon’s Graphite spyware against human rights defenders and journalists highlights the growing spyware crisis in Europe.
www.amnesty.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📢NEW: The alarming discovery that Paragon’s Graphite spyware has been used against activists and journalists in Italy underscores Europe's worsening digital surveillance crisis, fuelled by a laissez-faire approach to regulation of the industry. via @donncha.is
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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The Paris AI Summit showed that policy makers are ignoring how AI is harming people everyday, writes
@erikaguevararosas.bsky.social
thewire.in/tech/paris-s...
@erikaguevararosas.bsky.social
thewire.in/tech/paris-s...
Paris Summit Showed That Policy Makers Ignore How AI is Harming People Everyday
The next summit is in India, which is alarming given its record of abusing AI technologies.
thewire.in
March 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Paris AI Summit showed that policy makers are ignoring how AI is harming people everyday, writes
@erikaguevararosas.bsky.social
thewire.in/tech/paris-s...
@erikaguevararosas.bsky.social
thewire.in/tech/paris-s...
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🔔NEW: Apple threat notification 🔔
Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware!
Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware!
Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do
Apple threat notifications: What they mean and what you can do
www.amnesty.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🔔NEW: Apple threat notification 🔔
Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware!
Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Apple have just sent new notifications to individual's targeted by highly-invasive mobile spyware!
Reach out to our team at @Amnesty's Security Lab or trusted experts if you received this critical warning
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
"Online spaces are very important. It’s the easiest way to reach a lot of people and share information. The challenge is...we could face endless harassment and even death threats like I did."
Noon, a Muslim Thai LGBTI activist, shares her experience of online violence. #MakeItSafeOnline
Noon, a Muslim Thai LGBTI activist, shares her experience of online violence. #MakeItSafeOnline
‘They said that I should die if I can’t stop being trans’
Manun Wongmasoh, a Muslim transgender woman, works against the misuse of Islamic principles to discriminate against LGBTI people in Thailand.
www.amnesty.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Online spaces are very important. It’s the easiest way to reach a lot of people and share information. The challenge is...we could face endless harassment and even death threats like I did."
Noon, a Muslim Thai LGBTI activist, shares her experience of online violence. #MakeItSafeOnline
Noon, a Muslim Thai LGBTI activist, shares her experience of online violence. #MakeItSafeOnline
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Damini Satija, Director of Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty is at the Paris #AIActionSummit.
She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇
She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇
February 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Damini Satija, Director of Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty is at the Paris #AIActionSummit.
She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇
She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇
⚡Applications for @amnesty.org's Digital Forensics Fellowship are open.
If you're an HRD, journalist or technologist working for a CSO, and you want to expand your digital forensics knowledge with Amnesty's Security Lab team, please consider applying.
careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
If you're an HRD, journalist or technologist working for a CSO, and you want to expand your digital forensics knowledge with Amnesty's Security Lab team, please consider applying.
careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
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careers.amnesty.org
January 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
⚡Applications for @amnesty.org's Digital Forensics Fellowship are open.
If you're an HRD, journalist or technologist working for a CSO, and you want to expand your digital forensics knowledge with Amnesty's Security Lab team, please consider applying.
careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
If you're an HRD, journalist or technologist working for a CSO, and you want to expand your digital forensics knowledge with Amnesty's Security Lab team, please consider applying.
careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
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New @amnesty report reveals how Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other individuals in a covert surveillance campaign.
Read the report 👇
Read the report 👇
Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists
Serbian authorities are using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists in a surveillance campaign.
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December 16, 2024 at 10:28 AM
New @amnesty report reveals how Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other individuals in a covert surveillance campaign.
Read the report 👇
Read the report 👇
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🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...
Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists - Amnesty International Security Lab
Serbian police and intelligence authorities are using advanced phone spyware alongside Cellebrite mobile phone forensic products to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other ind...
securitylab.amnesty.org
December 16, 2024 at 9:58 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Amnesty’s latest report on digital surveillance in Serbia: new *NoviSpy* spyware discovered; zero days identified and patched; and first evidence showing use of Cellebrite UFED forensic products to unlock phones to then infect with spyware. 🧵
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/...
#16DaysOfActivism
At Amnesty we're actively campaigning for an end to technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including online violence, everywhere. Check out the work we’ve been doing this year with women, girls and LGBTI activists around the world 🧵 www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-d...
At Amnesty we're actively campaigning for an end to technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including online violence, everywhere. Check out the work we’ve been doing this year with women, girls and LGBTI activists around the world 🧵 www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-d...
What is online violence?
Our ability to communicate with people around the world online can be a powerful force for good. But it also creates new ways for people to inflict harm.
www.amnesty.org
December 6, 2024 at 11:03 AM
#16DaysOfActivism
At Amnesty we're actively campaigning for an end to technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including online violence, everywhere. Check out the work we’ve been doing this year with women, girls and LGBTI activists around the world 🧵 www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-d...
At Amnesty we're actively campaigning for an end to technology-facilitated gender-based violence, including online violence, everywhere. Check out the work we’ve been doing this year with women, girls and LGBTI activists around the world 🧵 www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-d...
Amnesty's new report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.amnesty.org
December 5, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Amnesty's new report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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If you're part of civil society and received an Apple notification. The Amnesty Security Lab would be happy to test your phone!
The Apple notification looks like this: support.apple.com/en-us/102174
The Security Lab can be contacted here: securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help/
The Apple notification looks like this: support.apple.com/en-us/102174
The Security Lab can be contacted here: securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help/
About Apple threat notifications and protecting against mercenary spyware - Apple Support
Apple threat notifications are designed to inform and assist users who may have been individually targeted by mercenary spyware.
support.apple.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:50 PM
If you're part of civil society and received an Apple notification. The Amnesty Security Lab would be happy to test your phone!
The Apple notification looks like this: support.apple.com/en-us/102174
The Security Lab can be contacted here: securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help/
The Apple notification looks like this: support.apple.com/en-us/102174
The Security Lab can be contacted here: securitylab.amnesty.org/get-help/
Disappointing news from Thailand.
Bangkok Civil Court has dismissed the lawsuit against NSO Group filed by Thai activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa - one of 35 Thai activists targeted with Pegasus spyware between 2020 and 2021.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Bangkok Civil Court has dismissed the lawsuit against NSO Group filed by Thai activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa - one of 35 Thai activists targeted with Pegasus spyware between 2020 and 2021.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Thailand: Dismissal of landmark case a critical and alarming setback in fight against unlawful use of spyware
Thai court's dismissal of spyware case against NSO Group is a set-back in the quest for justice for victims of Pegasus spyware.
www.amnesty.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Disappointing news from Thailand.
Bangkok Civil Court has dismissed the lawsuit against NSO Group filed by Thai activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa - one of 35 Thai activists targeted with Pegasus spyware between 2020 and 2021.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Bangkok Civil Court has dismissed the lawsuit against NSO Group filed by Thai activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa - one of 35 Thai activists targeted with Pegasus spyware between 2020 and 2021.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...